18) The question about how and where life might have begun?
(Updated Jan 23rd 2011)
Many contemporary scientists believe that life began on earth about 3.5 billion years ago. They search for evidence in fossil relics of micro-organic life on mountains, at seaside and in places like Australia. Other scientists believe that life began in other planets of the solar system and was transported to earth by meteorite. Both beliefs are hypothetical theories, but they are rooted on some scientific basis and realistic hypothesis. However, the former hypothesis suggests that life could be a local phenomenon on our earth and that tiny micro living organs could spring directly out of earth and survive its early environments, considering that it was the first life to appear not very long after the earth crust had formed from a hell like firry and molten mass. The later hypothesis suggests that living organs could be a universal phenomena and that it spreads from one planet to another, although it is hard to believe that tiny living organs could survive the space journey, especially the Van Alan belt whose strong radiation could kill an health human, let alone micro organs, and still proliferate in the rough and hostile early earth environments. I would have thought that it is more likely some organic plant seeds could have been transported to earth by meteorite fragments and survived the journey, or earthly inorganic material could have accidentally turned into organic material by random mixing, and organic materials then turned to simple botanical life. Then finally after billions of years botanical life evolved to become simple biological life, or early micro-organic life and then primitive animal life. Anyhow, the age old mystery of the spring of life has not yet been unveiled by modern science...
About two year ago I started to write my own ideas on the origin of life in this website, but I soon canceled it because I thought I need more time and research. However, few nights ago (March 11th 2005) there was an one hour film program in Hong Kong TV, in which some scientists were hotly debating the subject. It not only rekindled my thoughts but also showed that I might have something different to write about. Besides, it would make the Regenerating Universe Theory a shade more complete if I include the topic, and as long as I stick to scientific investigation and rationality, I should do it. So here we are! At any rate, I must add that in the following lines all I will do is to offer an analysis, which might provide some grounds for future reference. For many reasons, especially the difficulties in confronting absolutely reliable evidences on earth, I doubt that the mystery of life could be revealed so soon so easily. And yet, I can't help thinking that although the efforts to find evidences are important, it's probably no less realistic, or even more accurate, to reveal such distant mystery by theoretical derivations, because scientific principles and laws of nature are timeless and dependable. At least, some of the suggestions contained in this website could help to widen the scope of understanding.....
In the various pages here, I have shown that electric charge and magnet moment are the two most fundamental energies in nature. Let's begin from there!... We don't know why mother nature makes electricity with positive and negative poles and magnetism with attractive and repulsive potentials, but we do know that when in motion these two fundamental energies mutually induce each other at right angles following the Right Hand Rule. These two most basic energies are present in the atoms of all planets, which are spiraled through the galactic center and come out as electromagnetic radiations still containing electric and magnetic properties. These energies are indestructible and do spread to pervade every volume of space of the universe. Their mutual induction under the Right Hand Rule must be the underlying reason that causes the atoms, planets, solar systems and galaxies to spin, and hence the origin of motions in the universe (this is how electric motor works too). Motion of these two forces creates a force field symmetry in all materials that automatically adjust a state of dissymmetry into symmetry or disorder into orders in cosmic materials. External disturbances and internal motions also cause mixing of materials.
Mixing of nature's materials and the formation of force symmetry in material structure would eventually start off evolution. Over millions of years and countless trial and error in random interaction and mixing of materials, even inorganic substances must eventually find the right composition to become organic compounds. This happened in 1828 when German scientist Fredrick Woehler mixed inorganic ammonia with inorganic cyanic acid in laboratory, and produced for the first time man-made organic compound "Urea", which not only can nourish plants, but also can be digested by animals as feed supplements. In other words, with the right chances of mixing and evolution, even inorganic matters can become the body parts of plants and animal, such as fruits, leaves, seeds of planets, or the blood, bones, muscles, even wiggling sperms of animals. Today numerous kinds of inorganic substances and compounds are being manufactured into organic medicines for human consumptions, even used as limbs and parts of human body...
Evolution is a continuous process, which would step up from organic structures to simple botanic cells, then after some more million years the earth will be over populated with vast complexity of botanical growth and varieties. Then suddenly it was time for nature to adjust, evolve and jump a tiny step further, because evidences show that over the past few billion years, evolution has been really busy. It has jumped countless numbers of tiny steps. So, the botanical cell has become biological cell, and biological cell has become biological life! The egg or sperm is already an independent life form, even for the advanced creatures, but for the more primitive viruses, worms and planarians, etc., they simply split their body into two! Life is extremely prolific on earth!This could happen when a group or a specie of well developed botanical cells become activated by the evolutionary process of mutation under the action of Miracle-12 [Please read Page # 8, What is Miracle-12, the root of evolution This writing postulates that nature's vibrant mass/energy structures or systems are formed by mutual induction between electricity and magnetism. Such systems or entities have automatic capacity of changing (sensing) and maintaining structural balance (energy in symmetries) within the system (body), and therefore adjust (mutate) and evolve in order to cope with environmental needs]. In other words, nature's evolutionary capacity of adjusting force symmetries will pressurize the internal balance of the cells to mutate. Such cells are already the very first primitive life forms, and would be ready to evolve into single cell micro organic lives, which can be found in nature with great varieties and abundance. This mental picture of evolution is not at all far fetched, because it even complies with the polarization of sexes, which is characteristics of bi-polar properties of electricity and magnetism, from which the force symmetry is formed. Besides practically every life-form on earth has a symmetrical body structure, which is characteristic of nature's force symmetry.
The popular theory that life on earth comes from extra-terrestrial sources cannot explain the involvement of such more complex phenomena, e.g., sexes, and symmetries in body formation, etc., etc., which are very basic both in botanical life and biological life. Another important fact is that biological life can digest botanical substances as food and botanical life can also intake biological matters as nutrition, thus the two species share the same basic common origin. What's more, evolution process does require time and appropriate environments, and early conditions on earth must have been extremely hostile and perilous, especially unsuitable for un-evolved alien species. In other words, only absolutely benign and beneficial environmental conditions could allow primitive and early life-forms to survive and flourish. Therefore, it's much more likely that life is a home grown product, and consequently we have still a lot more brain squeezing to do!.
So, let us try to get into a bit more detailed analysis. The theory that life is home grown therefore not only is a natural approach, it also matches with the expected process and conditions for evolution seamlessly! Life cannot suddenly jump in on earth without the support of proper environmental support. Therefore the development of life on earth could have occurred as follows:- Natural substances and chemicals mix in moving waters. Random chance eventually combined inorganic substances and changed them into organic materials, a process first demonstrated by Fredrick Woehler almost 2 centuries ago. Organic matters with built-in force symmetry activated by sun's radiation turned into primitive botanical cell, which began the first life-form. Although this was only a botanical life, but nevertheless it was a life-form, which required far less demand for benign environmental support. Since botanical life requires mainly only water and carbon to proliferate, which were plenty around in primitive times. Still, it must have taken eons for early botanical life to evolve and populate the earth globe with nothing but vegetations and plants. The riches of plant and vegetation growth started to prepare our young earth by saturating the atmosphere with sufficient oxygen and oxygenated moving waters, which provided the eventual suitability for the biological life to flourish! Eventually vast areas of forest would be burnt by lightening or by chemical combustion, then winds and earth dusts would cover them repeatedly and forced the forest remains deep down and turned them into oil or coal for our use today!
Forest remains, carbon compounds, such as coals, are found all over the earth continents. However, the more advanced botanical lives contain more oils. Oil rich remains or other organic remains are found more abundant in the Middle Eastern areas today, probably because some regions of earth received certain range of temperatures more suitable for certain kinds of botanical or biological growth. Perhaps someday it would be found that regions where organic life had flourished, could have been the first spot to have evolved the first biological life. The search for the relics of early life has more chance of success if it is based on determining the suitable conditions for early lives. So, where there are plenty of plant life, sun shine, rains and water, such as vicinities of large swarms and great rivers, there a greater variety for mixing organic materials could have also facilitated the chance to produce the first simple biological cell, or living micro organ.
At any rate, the
most simple living biological organism today, such as viruses, happens to be just
practically one complete organic material distributed into a shape of a symmetry, capable of
splitting into more similar symmetrical organisms under certain suitable
conditions with a certain rhythm. This actually indicate that the simplest
biological life, or rather the very beginning of biological life is really just a bundle
of organic matter driven by nature's forces to form a
symmetrical and balanced existence, because it's nature's way that when an
established system of forces, or a force field is subject to ambient
disturbance, it will simply regenerate its balance by adjusting its symmetrical
balance. Such a phenomenon is prevalent everywhere in nature. This phenomenon is
especially evident in low level life-forms, such as a larvae or a planarian. It
has been reported that one researcher had cut up a flatworm into 178 pieces, and
days later those 178 pieces had regenerated themselves into 178 wiggling
flatworms. It appears that the more primitive a life-form is, the closer it
resembles nature's own drama of maintaining energy balance within a force field.
So, is the phenomenon of life a tiny step away from the phenomenon of pure
physical energy, or there is no difference at all? Has the above researcher
practically witnessed his own act of creation for 177 lives out of 178 organic
materials? Or where
had those 177 brand new flatworm's life come from? Modern life science is
perfectly aware that many planarians are capable regenerating lost body parts,
or splitting into two complete and separate lives. In fact, there are over
13,000 species of planarians in the world.
Viruses
can split into lots more viruses too!
Fig Left:- The picture of common flu virus. It is practically just an organic material distributed in a symmetry, capable of splitting into more similar symmetries. The split could occur between the two vertical darkened material, looking like pillars, or more likely, it could split between the two horizontal gaps, which are wider apart.
Of course, evolution means that simple and primitive life-forms will evolve into more complex life-forms. The process is usually triggered by internal change or influence from nutrition, or caused by external environmental changes and needs, etc., such needs would exert pressure for new growth or additional physical mutations. New growths would demand new balance or change in internal symmetry. So additional growth is added for the new balance. Thus life evolves and advances under the prolific power of evolution, which then continues in countless ever advancing repetitions. In time a whole series of growths or mutations would stabilize to be a part of life, and pass on as a program of command for life, or DNA. This is how nature carries out its function of evolution, which is still going on before our eyes. Every now and then new lives would be created and new species join the living world depending on the contents and properties of the organic material and the environmental demands. This is how virus mutate and some mutations can stabilize and evolve further.
Evolution is an extremely prolific process and capacity of nature. The above common flu virus is practically just a chunk of organic mass, evolved into a single cell micro life by an energy distribution similar to a force-field symmetry. Such a force symmetry in nature would split into 2 equal halves if disturbed by external forces. So this micro life of flu virus does also split itself as a means of procreation when it encounters and interacts with the human body. This extreme primitive micro life can do nothing else, except such very basic aptitude. But there are other less primitive micro lives that possess slightly better aptitudes such as means to detect touch or motions, but still have no means to sense sound, smell, vision ... or any more advanced senses, etc., etc.. However, as lives in nature advance, numerous steps of gradual evolutionary progress become evident in the aptitudes and facilities of living creatures such as planarians, insects, pests, bugs, fishes, birds .... all the way up to highly advanced mammals and animals that possess advanced physical organs and facilities to sense touch, smell, sound, visions, pains, even emotions, including love, anger, happiness, etc., and to be able to think, to judge, to create, to theorize, even to be able to invent .... etc., etc.. Most of these great aptitudes are still disparate to those of the earliest or earlier primitive lives. It shows that evolution is such an amazing phenomenon. It not only evolves and develops, it also jumps in large leaps!
For each and every step in the ladder of evolutionary progress there are relevant living creatures with mental or physical evidences, as well as DNA, to prove each evolutionary transformation, thus demonstrating that every creature on earth is but the product and consequence of evolution. Evolution is so prolific that it does not have to evolve from traces of existing facilities, it can simply create brand new facilities purely based on external demands. For instance, practically all the advanced aptitudes and facilities of the advanced creatures have no trace, nor hints, to be found in the life of those original single cell micro organs from which evolution had started its work. In other words, the gap between the advanced life and its most primitive roots is so huge and unrecognizable, that it invariably must lead to the following conclusions:- If it is possible for evolution to develop the most advanced beings on earth from such most primitive and unrecognizable origin, such as the single cell micro organs, then it is possible for evolution to develop such single cell micro organic life from nature's force symmetry acting on a chunk of organic mass. Alternatively it is equally possible for evolution to develop micro organic life from even more basic botanical life! So there are enough possibilities for that extremely prolific, productive and active evolution to create life!
The above deduction and information contained in page # 8) show not only that there is really no need for life to be transported to earth, it also assures us that there can be no doubt at all life exists in lots of planets in this universe, as long as conditions are rife, such as availability of water and oxygen, as well as suitable temperatures and sun shine or electromagnetic radiations for inorganic matter to transform to organic compounds and for primitive life to evolve and develop! We can even be sure that humans are some of the newest and youngest members of universe who possess facilities to think and to hope, and to dream!
The idea that life began first with botanical life has strong bases. Firstly, botanical life needs much less basic conditions to survive. It requires only sunshine, soil, water, some carbon and carbon dioxide to proliferate. Therefore, botanical life could appear on earth first and proliferate. Secondly, plant lives consume animal wastes as nutrients and animals consume plant parts and vegetations as nutrients. Such exchanges are completely compatible, which shows without doubt that both lives share the same origin. However biological life could hardly have survived without botanical food when it first sprang into life on earth. In fact, it still hardly can today. But nutrients must be completely compatible and consumed in strictly correct manners, the slightest deviation would kill them off. Therefore, the theory that organic or biological life was transported to earth by meteorite from space has still to explain how they managed to live without absolutely suitable food to sustain them after arrival. For any biological life to live, to survive, to procreate, to proliferate and to evolve there must be at least 5 minimum conditions, i.e. the availability and abundance of Sunshine, Oxygen, Unsalted Water and Organic Foods and lastly plenty of time!. Primitive extraterrestrial life could hardly have survived any length of time on primitive earth without suitable nutrients, not even for a few short days.
Also the theory that biological life began in the ocean then came up on land also has the same problems about foods. Because unless I am right about botanical life or vegetations being the first to proliferate on land, then there would have been no botanical foods for the primitive marine visitors and guests to live on! Even if vegetations were plentiful on land it would not have been easily suitable as accustomed nutrients to the marine visitors whose domestic foods on dining table were fishes and salty drinks. Consequently, any marine lives equipped with gills must have found conditions on ground particularly incongruous for living. On the other hand, those marine lives without gills were actually migrants from the ground surface to sea. In any case, the development of any healthful life requires a great deal of sun shine and oxygen, which is by far more abundant on ground surface than under sea. Therefore it would appear that the first primitive and tiny biological life would have begun on land, most likely in swarms, or near great rivers, then when evolved strong enough, some of them might followed the flow of water down to sea and managed to survive. Eventually some of them might even return back on land, whilst others could have developed gills or breathing organisms to live happily under sea!
In conclusion, it really shouldn't be surprising that advanced living beings or animals have evolved from primitive biological origin or micro-organic lives, and primitive biological lives have evolved from botanical origin, because animals can consume botanical parts as food and plants can also digest animal wastes or remains as nutrient. In other words, both animal and plant species can intake each other's physical parts and turn them into ones own living body parts, even parts such as seeds, or sperms and eggs. It means the two vastly different species on earth share the same common origin. Some people may not like such a revelation, but truth is always naked and can be embarrassing! Besides, these two species also share other major living functions. Both species are organic beings that live, grow, get ailed or aged, and die! What's more, both species copulate and procreate, and have DNA! Some plants can even differentiate between the blows of wind and the touch of a human hand, and then move their leaves or limbs in responds to the human touch. Many plants possess means to trap and catch insects, then use them as nourishments. So, without doubt plants too are a living specie and have life just as humans do!.
However, one can't help wondering what life really is? A planarian, namely flatworm, could be cut into178 pieces, and still each piece would regenerate into a wiggling new planarian life. A hospital patient may be kept barely alive, in so called "vegetable" state, for months or years by pure modern medical science and facilities. A new life, even a specie, can be created by cloning, carried out chiefly by replacing and fertilizing the egg with a chosen individual's DNA before allowing the process of procreation to continue. Such a process has been proven successfully. Also a plant seed may be dried up under sun and wind, and kept for months or years until the time comes when a farmer wants to regenerate it into a new living plant. Modern technology allows animal eggs and sperms to be refrigerated in sub-zero temperatures until time comes to revive and reactivate the frozen and delayed functions to produce life again. So, what is life and where does it come from?
In page # 8) What is Miracle-12. the root of evolution. I have shown that nature, or rather the Miracle-12, has the capacity to detect the imbalance of its own energy symmetry and act to restore the balance, so that its own existence, the energy/mass entity, may continue to function. In fact, in doing so, it demonstrates that nature too has the wish or will power to exist, and in wanting to exist, it exhibits a clear purpose. In fact, it has not only purpose, but also the responsibility, for otherwise the entire system would disintegrate and perish. Then it has also the means and methods to achieve the balance by switching suitable symmetries. And last but not least, it has physical energy to do it! So, Miracle-12 appears to be a phenomenon of life as well!... So, indeed what is life? Is life just pure energy? Because when the energies of a living body, be it animal, or plantation, or nature's own vibrant organism, discontinue to function as an organized operating and coordinating entity, then that body is no longer alive, or dead! Despite there are some energies still remaining in each individual atom... The answer for that, for the time being I will leave to my insightful readers! However, one thing is for sure. Knowledge is essential and worthy of all efforts to investigate and acquire! Only knowledge can enhance intelligence, evolve human quality and advance civilization. It can also remove ignorance and divulge intentional blind-folding... (Updated Jan 23rd 2011).
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